Identifier: americanjournal69phil (find matches)
Title: American journal of pharmacy
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
Subjects: Pharmacy
Publisher: Philadelphia
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, Bot., p. 69,pi. 20-21) that it might possibly be derived from Ferula suaveolens,which has only a faint musky odor. He states that the root isscented, and is one of the kinds of sumbul exported from Persia toBombay by the Persian Gulf (/. c, p. 69). It seems to be desirable, therefore, that the true sumbul shouldbe cultivated to meet a trade desideratum. The use of an inferiordrug will otherwise probably lead in time to the entire disuse of thedrug. Under these circumstances my own experience in the culti-vation of the true sumbul plant may prove interesting to some ofthe readers or the Pharmaceutical Journal. Some years since, one of our corresponding members, M. AndrewFerrein, of Moscow, sent me some young plants of Ferula foetidissima,and with them two young plants of F. sumbul. They arrived inautumn, packed in husks of buckwheat, like ordinary bulbs. Thefleshy roots at that period of the year appear to lose all the small Pharmaceutical Journal, April 24, 1897. i^ 2 c Ecr c oo If.
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^A^*^ ^^> 3i6 Sn nib III in England. (-^ m. Jour. Pharri June, 1897. rootlets, and will then bear digging up and transplanting withoutinjury, the tuberous root sending out, in the following early spring,new rootlets. Tn February, or, in late winters, in March, as soon as the ground isao longer hard from continued frost, the sumbul plant sends up oneor more young leaves. These may be a little injured if exposed tohard frost, although not injured by white frost, but as a rule newleaves come on, and the plant stands our winters as well as mostindigenous plants oi the same natural order. The fully developedleaves appear in April, and continue to grow until July, when theyturn yellowish and gradually wither. The root increases in sizeevery year, retaining its oval form, presumably, until it attains asufficient reserve of nutrition to enable it to throw up a large fruitingstem. The inflorescence of the specimen that flowered in the KewGardens some years ago attained a height of about 8 f

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